I think this is another underrated and under-seen movie. Twenty years old now (2015) but it plays nearly as well now as 20 years ago.This movie has it all. The writing is exceptional, with believable dialog and totally true to life little office stories going on in the background. Truly a cast of top actors. Michael McDougal might be Randy Quaid's best part. Also, Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei,plus the lesser supporting parts all written and acted well. I wonder what it would cost to get that cast together in a movie today!And kudos to Ron Howard. Even in 1994, he had come a long way since Grand Theft Auto! He, may be the next Mike Nichols--a director who has as much ability to attract and audience as the actors.

The Paper is one of those movies I revisit every once in awhile, after having seen it multiple of times when I was younger. And with visit, I fall in love with it all over again.What's funny, with this 8/7/13 latest viewing, is that they knew their kind, back in 1994, was on their way out. Talk about foreshadowing!Now, the newspaper business isn't extinct yet, but probably will be soon. I know I haven't subscribed to a newspaper in probably 15-16 years, but I did love reading them – despite the black fingers and stacks of old papers to be taken out as downfalls.I digress. My point is, if anyone watches this today, for the first time, they may find it completely outdated. Case in point: (chain) smoking in buildings, beepers and least of all: the newspaper business trying to be the first to nab a story when it only publishes once a day and at night.This is sad. This movie is literally action and suspense-packed from minute one. I enjoy the progression of these characters, their deadlines, stress, movements, dialogue and depth. I believe this movie is incredibly made well, fun, funny and is worth every minute of screen time. So, if you're a first time viewer, just think: 1994 and move on and along with these fantastic characters.I also fancy 24-hour movies, or films that take place in one day'ish. This one begins in the morning, and follows reporter/editor Henry (a fantastic performance from Michael Keaton) for one complete day and his plight to tell the truth vs. what's easy to publish that might ruin two boy's lives. They're accused of murder and this particular newspaper's front page (alone) might convict them. He needs to fight deadlines, problems, his own superiors and the pending birth of his first child. You feel every bit of his stress and love it at the same time.Every single actor in this movie gave their 100% and had incredible depth and believability. But, namely, I loved Keaton's Henry, Glenn Close's Alicia, Robert Duvall's Bernie and Randy Quaid's Michael. Notably, and as a TV's The Incredible Hulk fan growing up, it's awesome to see the name "Jack McGee" show up in the credits. (He's a minor character, but that name…in association with a movie about an all-but tabloid…is gold for a fan of the Hulk series like me.)I don't award too many films with 5/5 stars (or in IMDb's case, 10/10,) but besides the fact I grew up wanting to be a journalist (and studied it in college many moons ago,) I fall more and more in love with this film as the day progresses with each viewing. I love the story, the fast pace, the cinematography, the comedic lines and above all else, the characters. I absolutely love this film.On a side note, it's sad to say, in 1994, and in 2013…racial tensions and crimes almost match. This makes this movie relevant, even today, but not for good reasons.

There are not too many solid Newspaper stories which ever make it to the silver Screen. Occasionally one does comes along and if it's message is important with respect towards the audience, it deserves attention. Such a movie is, " The Paper ". The star of the movie is Michael Keaton who plays Henry Hackett a city editor who's boss is Bernie White played by noted actor Robert Duvall. Jason Robards is the Publisher, Graham Keighley. Their newspaper is about to print a story about a local derailment, when a small item arrest in Williamsburg NY, inspires Hackett to risk his position and a promotion with 'The Sentinal'' a prestigious uptown Newspaper. There are a number of hurtles to following up on the Williamsburg murder of three prominent bankers who lost several million dollars of the Mafia's money, primary of which is Alicia Clark (Glenn Close) an envious supervisor who is more interested in saving money than the reputations of two black youths. She explains that without more information on the dead men, additional corroboration or a quote by the tight-lipped police, she is running the subway derailment story. Confident he is right, Hackett pulls out all the stops to beat a four hour deadline, attend his wife's (Marisa Tomei) social life, protect his top reporter (Randy Quaid) from a gun-toting parking official (Jason Alexander) and file the story by press time. The movie possess all the exciting impetus of a modern front page story including the daily problems confronting the staff and the personal lives of all concern. The film is powerful in it's direction and will in time be seen as a Journalistic Classic. Easilly recommended for all. ****

"Things can change in 24 hours." One of the quotes from the movie "The Paper" I have learned a lot from this movie, it showed me how things got done, what is the competition and what can change in 24 hours. With an all-star cast of Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall and Marisa Tomei and more, they used there acting skills to show what the characters would be like in a real paper business. Well throughout the movie I have noticed that everyone is always working from sun up to sun down, this is a curial thing to make sure that there news is the most up to date as it can be. Throughout the movie they are covering a story about two African American kids that were blamed for a murder, except for they did not do it, they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. So throughout one day in the movie "the Paper" they were trying to see if the kids were not guilty so they can be the only ones to print the "right" thing on there front page. This shows journalism at its best, they had teams that went to different places trying to get all the information they can get to prove this innocence's. After hours and hours of trying and going to places and getting shot down, they finally went to a cop and got what they needed, saving it just in time, printing what they wanted to print. Another thing was that just like in the real world there were chains of commands, this was broken a lot in this movie to get what the wanted for the story, but there was some scud things, such as the bar fight and the fight in the paper room. The story gave a great example at what goes on in a paper room and what can happen or and will.